Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of an application under the surrender of dormant milk quota for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35202/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The European Communities (Milk Quota) Regulations 2000, as amended, provide that, where a quota holder delivers less than 70% of his or her milk quota for two successive years, some or all of the unused part of the quota may be taken into the national reserve. Where the low level of deliveries is due to force majeure, or in other duly justified cases, temporarily affecting production, no quota is taken into the reserve. The named person supplied 21.5% of his quota in 2003-04 and 7.5% in 2004-05 and, having considered the circumstances of his low deliveries, 30% of his milk quota was added to the national reserve with effect from 1 April 2005. Should the named person or his successor increase milk production to the extent that he requires the part of the quota in the reserve, it will be restored to him or his successor, on application.